A UAF student has been reported missing after visiting a local bar more than a week ago.

Will Bergeson, 20, was last seen in the vicinity of the Midnight Mine between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. on Nov. 11. Family members have posted fliers around campus asking for information so they can locate him, but police say he might be dead.

"We're now treating it more as a recovery than a rescue," said Lt. Dusty Johnson of the Fairbanks Police Department. "Hopefully we'll be proven wrong."

Bergeson, who had been enrolled at UAF since 2004 and is listed as a maintenance technology major, was last heard from at 2:46 a.m., when his girlfriend, Robin Mullican, called him, Johnson said. He may have also received a call at 2:53 a.m., though police aren't certain, he said.

"It's like he's dropped off the face of the earth," Johnson said.

His vehicle was found parked at a friend's house, the same place it was when he was last heard from that Saturday. Johnson put detectives on the case and sent dogs out looking for clues. They also put in a request for phone records, he said.

But on Wednesday, police pulled the plug on the dog searches, said Detective Chris Nolan, the lead investigator on the case. They had sent two to four dogs out each day, but had found nothing new, he said.

Police say it's possible Bergeson fell into the Chena River, which lies a short distance from the Midnight Mine. Nolan added he was continuing his investigation. The family was expected to conduct its own search during the weekend, he said.

Marvin Bergeson, Will's father, said he last saw his son at around 5 p.m. on Nov. 10 when he went to the movies with some friends.

Before that, Mullican said Bergeson had dropped she off at the gym around 4 p.m.

Bergeson and his friends started at the Midnight Mine and then went to Kodiak Jack's, Mullican said. He had a fake ID, she said. They then returned to the Mine, but when his friends got in their cars, he didn't, she said.

Mullican, who had been dating Bergeson for 11 months as of that day, arrived at Midnight Mine after he had left.

She then received a cell phone call from Bergeson.

"He said, hey baby, where are you?" she said.

When she told him, he said, "I'll be right there."

He never showed.

"We were thinking he was with some friends and had wandered off, but then his friends said they hadn't seen him," Marvin Bergeson said.

Johnson said police are questioning his friends.

Mullican said it just doesn't make sense for Bergeson to not show up.

"If he calls me at the end of the night, then that means he wants to be with me," she said.

Bergeson's family reported him missing Nov. 12, Johnson said. By the next day, though, Johnson said time might have run out.

"Unfortunately, it's been 50-plus hours since he's gone missing," Johnson said Nov. 13, noting that temperatures were dropping.

Bergeson was last seen wearing a blue sweatshirt, faded jeans, a grey fleece North Face jacket, New Balance tennis shoes, and a blue winter hat. He's 6-foot, 2-inches and weighs 200 pounds. He has short trimmed brown hair, blue eyes, and a slight beard.

Police are asking anyone with information call Detective Nolan at 450-6551.